Windows user since 1994 (2 YO)
Linux user since 2008
recently “betrayed” by m$
2020 or 2021 switched to Linux but dual booted with winlol for compatibility
gamer, but not competitive
on 2021 succeeded to run everything on Linux
deleted winlol and use only Linux since
@bleistift2 @addie Wayland will be the only display server, it’s impossible to deny it, for example KDE defaults to Wayland & Gnome is 100% detached from X11, the deletion of X11 is coming in the future
plus, X11 is full of spaghetti code and no one, and I mean no one, supports it anymore, Wayland came to correct that, plus if you have a laptop with a hybrid GPU, you must switch manually between for example Nvidia & Intel, on Wayland everything is done automatically, etc
@AndrewZabar using EndeavourOS, for example, searching how to install the Nvidia drivers, you can find old results such as installing nvidia-dkms… yay -S nvidia-dkms, that could have been useful 3 years ago but now it breaks the display, you should instead yay -S nvidia-inst && nvidia-inst & everything will work perfectly
@AndrewZabar @woelkchen really ? I discard them immediately as they seem super old
@naonintendois @craigcorbin catching up? From what I heard, Linux surpassed winlol in gaming for certain titles, but yes, if you take the average, there’s still a gap, and it’s becoming smaller and smaller
@lazynooblet @the16bitgamer me too for a google email (@esprit.tn), I used it on YT mainly, I used it on other things but YT is the main user, & I subscribed with it for some youtubers, after some time, the uni deleted the mailbox so they also deleted the YT account, meaning those youtubers lost a subscriber, meaning they receive less money, and that falls to the uni, the uni is to blame not me 🤣
@hanke @DV8 Valve is highly unlikely to put a kernel-level anticheat that bans Linux users but as a piece of advice, don’t run competitive multiplayer games on Linux, I mean do not get accustomed to, that also should apply to me since I play Palworld which is MP only, even on SP, you can have someone join at any time
@Zozano @Lost_My_Mind so I lose much much time researching and since they were pirated games, support was poor so I even searched the dark web (not the dark dark web but I call the dark web the 3rd+ page of google)
@Zozano @Lost_My_Mind
seriously, I have been gaming for more than 30 years and if you want me to swear I’ll swear, for 25 years I have been gaming pirated games, on the V1.0.0 of a random game, the save file is located on My Documents\My Saved Files, then after installing the update 1.1.0 the saved progress is gone, after much research, I find it under my docs\the game name, then after 1.2.0, I find it under App Data\local… and so on and every time the pseudo changes+ the path
@possiblylinux127 @iopq
in reality, gaming on Linux became since a long time way better than on winlol, and Mesa & CodeWeavers are actively working to make it better every day, the problem comes from developers, mainly kernel-level anticheat, according to members on the fediverse or one of the communities I follow on fb, it all comes down to a simple checkbox if you want the game to allow running on Linux or nay, so the blame falls down to stupid devs not the OS
@mesamunefire @themadcodger in tunisia at least, the number one way to play games is:-through piracy (I hate piracy but if you are born in tunisia then it is very very hard to pay for anything virtual like games) -via launchers like Battle.net for HS -via custom .exe like for Project Celeste… in short Steam is not the only way to get games, Steam OS and by consequence the Steamdeck is not even officialy on sale in tunisia anywhere and going to desktop mode requires intellect which is not common
@Lost_My_Mind I can’t explain it, but my blood boils after hearing him speak, maybe it’s the way he speaks , IDK, but every video he makes turns me into an angry man
@TheGrandNagus @Shirasho I remember doing that in high school in 2018 but I forgot all about it because I never again after class did that
@Max_P @Professorozone BTW I especially hate that Titus fella, even though his ideas are good & helpful, but the way he expresses them, the way he talks, makes blood boil in my head from anger
@owenfromcanada I know how easy, user and beginner-friendly it is, since 2008 I had my fair share of distro-hopping among debian & RHEL families, but they all broke when I installed them on my Nvidia-powered Laptops, 3 years ago I had enough so I began my tour with the Arch family, manjaro was an unpleasant host, even though is for gamers & very user-friendly but super unstable &, ahem, governed by clowns, I tried Garuda but it’s gaming focused, I need an all-purpose distro, so EOS was my go-to
@owenfromcanada do you happen to know the name of such tool? I know Garuda, Ubuntu & many distros have them, but since my priority was stability even on stress conditions, my daily driver is Endeavour OS, but it lacks that feature, it has everything otherwise
@owenfromcanada @Akasazh I just want to mention that old amd GPUs require a proprietary driver, from my humble logic, that requires tinkering, like for Nvidia cards that do require proprietary drivers, but even Nvidia embraced Open-Source so there’s nvidia-open now, in short, now, there’s 0 reason to use proprietary trash, except on special circumstances
@jeremyparker at least, I am very well developed into Linux gaming, I am not a competitive gamer, so I am in more than a good place, luckily I am already not a fan of the incompatible games like Space Marines 2
But I can only contribute by using, testing & posting on forums, I can’t code well even if my life depended on it
@jeremyparker @lemmee_in BTW I made the first blow, I was a m$ fanboy from 1994 to 2019, then they made winlol 11 & I realized that lying was in their blood, so I have been using Linux since 2019 coupled with winlol, in 2022 I used only Linux-machine but yesterday I had to have winlol also, damn Gigabyte with their winlol-only support
@AndrewZabar in 2024, you just yay -S nvidia-inst && nvidia-inst & everything works so they are no longer a problem